The Progressive Worldview Volume 1

<p>What does it mean to be a progressive not just in the narrow political sense but in your philosophy your belief system your <em>worldview</em>?</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Progressive Worldview</em> offers a three-volume response to this question developing a detailed account of what it means to hold a progressive worldview and making a case for why we should. <em>Volume I: The History of Progress</em> begins this project by tracing the development of the progressive worldview from its origins in the Scientific Revolution through the closing decades of the twentieth century.</p><p><br></p><p>In telling this story <em>The History of Progress</em> follows two tracks. The first details how advances in modern science have radically changed our picture of how the world is put together. The second a moral track investigates how this evolving view of nature has altered our conception of how we ought to organize and govern ourselves.</p><p><br></p><p>Equal parts history science philosophy and political evangelism <em>The Progressive Worldview</em> seeks to help contemporary progressives articulate answers to the questions humans have posed for as long as they have existed: Where does the world come from? How does it operate? Where is it headed? And what is our place within it?</p>